Sponsored News

Sponsored by NetApp - NetApp Chief Technology Officer Jay Kidd recently made some interesting forecasts for 2015. Among them was a prediction regarding the use of flash storage in the data center. According to Kidd, the future of all-flash arrays is not all flash.

Sponsored by NetApp - NetApp’s new E-Series storage systems use flash technology to deliver industry-leading performance for enterprise applications. Specifically, the EF560 posted the top price-performance result for all-flash storage systems with an average response time of less than 1 millisecond based on the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark.

Sponsored by NetApp - There’s no shortage of all-flash array (AFA) storage vendors vying for attention this year. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays catalogs 12 vendors currently offering AFAs, and there are at least another dozen AFA vendors flying under Gartner’s radar. All told, if you are considering an all-flash array, you have well over 50 different models to choose from.

Sponsored by NetApp - Data marts built on database systems such as Microsoft SQL Server fuel much of today’s modern analytics. Slicing and dicing growing bodies of data allows custom reports to be generated for internal decision makers. Beyond internal uses, however, such reporting can also serve as a revenue source for companies that can deliver fast and reliable data services in response to market needs.